This film mixes images from the diverse lives of Iranians in the United States that make up a nation in Exile.
Sometimes frantic, sometimes thoughtful, this documentary, as educational as it is entertaining, is a journey through t…
Three people that have suffered racist and fascist attacks in Germany during the last decades decide that these crimes …
This documentary was conceived to enter the mind of an elderly Armenian suffering from Parkinson's. Through Cinema, we …
Following the quest of Alfred von Rodt, a Swiss who sought to found a kingdom on the Chilean island that inspired Robin…
After being diagnosed with cancer, and amid the tension of the political crisis, a Syrian man begins a family explorati…
Award-winning filmmaker Irene Gutierrez intersects a personal journey back to her native Spanish town, on the border wi…
The story of an elderly refugee torn between the past, the insecure present and the bleak future. He struggles to decid…
A small village in Papua New Guinea faces the dilemma of leaving its ancestral lands due to the threat of a flood cause…
This documentary follows two young men in Mali who dream of becoming professional soccer players to be able to go to Eu…
In 2007, João Paulo Seara staged a puppet theater play. This documentary is a fascinating insight into its creation pro…
This is a unique portrait of Marceline Loridan-Ivens, wife of the great filmmaker Joris Ivens and a reference, along wi…
Stefan Theiler has an interesting theory. He believes that any individual or sociological problem of the human being ca…
Through the small details in the memories of a Syrian refugee in Berlin, this short film makes the exercise of illustra…
This documentary follows Dragon, who makes a living smuggling people fleeing North Korea through the border with China.…
This is one of the first films that makes visible the Gorani people, Muslims settled in southern Kosovo who historicall…
A man returns to his small village in Azerbaijan with a strange animal: a European cow. The arrival of the animal unlea…
In this particular western, director Julian T. Pinder reveals the consequences on the health and the environment posed …
After spending more than twenty years in prison during the Soviet Union, a 71-year-old grandfather dedicates himself to…
The inhabitants of a town in southern Belgium have clever ways of commemorating the First World War every day.
A legendary icon of folk music, a singer who was the source of inspiration for Bob Dylan, this essay-documentary is a p…
Four mountaineers return to K2, the second highest mountain in the world, following the tracks of their parents, who pe…
This emotional Oscar-nominated short film, follows the day-to-day of five seniors living in a retirement resort in Palm…
What is the experience of children growing up in same-sex families? This documentary offers a children's point of view …
Premiered at the prestigious IDFA, this documentary follows the Swedish rapper Silvana over several years through her w…
In a disputed territory between Serbia and Croatia, a man planted the flag of the fictional country called "Liberland".…
Welcome to a popular procession in Sardinia. A ritualistic - almost dreamy- observation of libertine demonstration that…
After living in Paris for years, Arash, a demotivated young Iranian, visits the coasts of France with his friends, who …
Saul's dad took him to work with him on a hot Summer day in 1950. What could go wrong? More than 60 years later, in thi…
In 1811, two bodies were found shot in Lake Wannsee, near Berlin. The German poet Kleist and a woman. What is known abo…
When Daniel Ortega returns to power in Nicaragua in 2006, a group of Americans see the lands they bought in the past th…
Director Andrew Lancaster delves into his family's past and brings to light the case of his uncle Bill Lancaster, an av…
This unique documentary, full of humor and irreverence, follow the traces of the members of "Gelitin", an Austrian arti…
This observational documentary makes visible the faces behind the famous manhole covers on the streets of New York, whi…
A filmmaker returns to his parents' home, where a ghostly presence has much to say about a mother and a father facing t…
This documentary takes us into the fascinating work of Amancio Williams, an icon of modern Argentine architecture.
Arami returns from Europe to Paraguay to take care of her elderly mother, who suffers from epilepsy and Parkinson. Clou…
The filmmaker Bernhard Braunstein shoots a group of French students in a conversation practice. A reflection on languag…
Luis Quijano, the son of an officer of the Argentine dictatorship of the late 1970s, looks at us on camera and tells us…
This documentary by filmmaker Rama Rau is a journey as raw as it is impressive to the golden years of the burlesque sce…
Through a cinema workshop, a group of students from an Armenian school in Argentina use film resources to reconstruct a…
Miguel has heard that he looks a lot like his father, whom he has never met. In this story we accompany him in a poetic…
This episode of UN In Action takes us to New York, where the United Nations promotes urban farming as a sustainable way…
In this episode of UN In Action we follow the Somali police force in their attempt to eradicate the contamination of ex…
Banned in his home country, this documentary by young filmmaker Nontawat Numbenchapol is a crude and experiential gaze …
In this artistic documentary, the legendary Czech choreographer Jiří Kylián shares his experiences and his creation pro…
Premiered at the Venice Film Festival, this film documents the popular insurgency that overthrew the Mubarak regime in …
In Vienna, a group of immigrants from the Middle East try to integrate into the Austrian society in the midst of the ho…
Best Documentary Films
